I wonder if that could be used to show people a bit of what it's like to have a speech impediment.

After watching more videos, I guess people are just using speech jammers to make fun of people with speech impediments, as well as southerners.

I don't know if it's aimed at making fun of people with speech impediments, but it's rather humorous to see someone who can talk normally suddenly start slurring and stuttering just from the use of voice feedback.

I've tried it myself, but it seems to not have the same effect. I stutter a little, but I generally manage to catch it.

Also, this coming from someone who did speech therapy for a while because of a speech disorder diagnosis that ultimately turned out to be a mis-diagnosis._________________Juke Joint Jezebel

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I wonder if that could be used to show people a bit of what it's like to have a speech impediment.

After watching more videos, I guess people are just using speech jammers to make fun of people with speech impediments, as well as southerners.

I don't know if it's aimed at making fun of people with speech impediments, but it's rather humorous to see someone who can talk normally suddenly start slurring and stuttering just from the use of voice feedback.

I've tried it myself, but it seems to not have the same effect. I stutter a little, but I generally manage to catch it.

Also, this coming from someone who did speech therapy for a while because of a speech disorder diagnosis that ultimately turned out to be a mis-diagnosis.

Okay, cool. I was reacting to the comments in the video, as well as other videos where people talk about how funny it is they 'sound retarded.'

I had heard about these speech disruptors being used in Japanese business meetings to keep people from talking too long, so I've been curious how they actually sound. I had thought it actually just made people go blank and become unable to remember what they were going to say. I'll have to look into it more because it is really interesting._________________::lesser crisis mode::

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This amuses me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbRKAVZBlRc_________________Before God created Las he pondered on all the aspects a woman might have, he considered which ones would look good super-inflated and which ones to leave alone.
After much deliberation he gave her a giant comfort zone. - Michael

Trailer for the new Cosmos miniseries, with Neil deGrasse Tyson filling in for Carl Sagan.
I'd be lying if I said the amount of explosions peppered in there didn't worry me a bit, but if anybody can succeed Sagan as the voice of wonder for the new millennium of science enthusiasm, it's Tyson.